Vancouver con­tin­ues to rank as the nation’s most expen­sive hous­ing mar­ket — by far.

Buying a place to live in Vancouver in 2012 would cost more than dou­ble the price of a home in Ottawa, Montreal, or Quebec City.

The cheap­est cities? Saint John and Moncton in New Brunswick, along with Trois-​​Rivières, Quebec. In Moncton, $156,750 would have bought you a home in 2012, a fig­ure that’s expected to hold fairly steady in 2013.

Here’s a sum­mary of the city-​​by-​​city results for 20 major met­ro­pol­i­tan areas: